Pitfalls and practical Use-Cases: Toplink, Hibernate, Eclipse Link, Ibatis ...

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Published on 2009-04-06T09:09:14Z Indexed on 2010/05/06 1:08 UTC
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I worked a lot with Hibernate as my JPA implementation. In most cases it works fine! But I have also seen a lot of pitfalls:

  • Remoting with persisted Objects is difficult, because Hibernate replaces the Java collections with its own collection implementation. So the every client must have the Hibernate .jar libraries. You have to take care on LazyLoading exceptions etc. One way to get around this problem is the use of webservices.
  • Dirty checking is done against the Database without any lock.
  • "Delayed SQL", causes that the data access isn't ACID compliant. (Lost data...)
  • Implict Updates >> So we don't know if an object is modified or not (commit causes updates).

Are there similar issues with Toplink, Eclipse Link and Ibatis? When should I use them? Have they a similar performance? Are there reasons to choose Eclipse Link/Toplink... over Hibernate?

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